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Chamberlayne, Israel

clergyman, author, was born in 1795, in New York. He was the author of Past and the Future; The Australian Captive; Saving Faith: its Rationale; and The Great Specific Against Despair of Pardon.

CHAMBERLIN, EDWARD PAYSON, merchant, was born Sept. 16, 1832, in Parishville, N. Y. In 1866 he moved to Atlanta, Ga., and organized the dry goods firm of Chamberlin, Cole and Boynton.

He was a member of the city council in 1876-77; and director of a number of prosperous corporations of Atlanta, Ga.

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